We’re entering a new era at CloudZero, and we’re coming in hot.
This week, we’re not just launching a new feature. We’re taking a major step forward in our mission to make cloud cost efficiency a seamless, engineer-first, business-aligned reality.
My team and I are thrilled to introduce CloudZero Optimize, our smartest, most action-oriented optimization solution yet.
But before we dive in, let’s set the stage for why this is such a pivotal moment for CloudZero and all of our customers. Hot on the heels of triple-digit growth last year, we’ve just closed our $56 million Series C funding round.
This isn’t just fuel for growth It’s rocket fuel for our next phase of innovation. With this momentum, we’re expanding our ability to help customers maximize their investments in AI and the cloud, building out deeper integrations across engineering and finance workflows, and accelerating our ability to deliver powerful new capabilities, starting today with CloudZero Optimize.
Turning Insights Into Realized Savings
Over the years, we’ve heard a consistent message from engineering and FinOps teams: Optimization is a priority, but actually executing it is hard and often time consuming. Most tools produce long, generic lists of savings recommendations that lack business or technical context. As a result, they often get ignored, delayed, or deprioritized.
We built CloudZero Optimize to change that. This product, which is built right on top of our foundational platform, is the result of years spent helping teams understand their cloud usage, connecting cost to architecture and business outcomes, and identifying what actually works when it comes to driving savings. CloudZero Optimize combines all of that knowledge into an experience designed to make remediation simple, clear, and impactful for the engineers who are closest to the infrastructure and the work.
At its core, CloudZero Optimize delivers savings opportunities that are specific to your environment and enriched with technical and business context. These aren’t abstract ideas, they’re practical, curated recommendations you can trust, built to reflect your architecture and your team’s priorities.
Just as importantly, we’ve designed CloudZero Optimize to work where your teams already spend their time. Whether it’s Slack, Jira, or some other tool, recommendations show up inside your existing tools, rich with context and everything your team needs to act immediately, so they don’t feel like an extra project or a handoff from finance. Optimization becomes part of your team’s natural workflow rather than an afterthought.
And because CloudZero Optimize tracks realized savings over time, teams can see exactly what changes resulted in real monetary impact. This creates a clear feedback loop and makes it easier to communicate wins internally, not just at the infrastructure level, but in terms of overall business value.
A Recommendation Factory, Built For Speed
Behind the scenes, CloudZero Optimize is powered by what we call our Insights Factory. This system enables us to develop, test, and release new savings opportunities across AWS, Azure, GCP, Snowflake, and other platforms on a regular basis. As cloud platforms evolve and new cost levers emerge, CloudZero Optimize keeps pace — and ensures you don’t have to wait months to benefit from improvements.
We’re also introducing more intelligent filtering and prioritization. That means your teams won’t be overwhelmed by alerts. Instead, they’ll get a focused view of the highest-impact recommendations, ordered by estimated savings and effort to resolve. The goal is to remove noise and help teams focus on what matters most.
CloudZero Optimize isn’t just a product release. It’s a building block for the future of cloud cost management.
CloudZero is building toward a future where cloud unit economics are embedded in everyday development, where optimization is part of how you build and operate software, and where both human and AI decision-makers have the context they need to make smart, efficient choices.
CloudZero Optimize is a step toward that vision. It helps bridge the gap between cost visibility and cost action. It brings engineering and finance into closer alignment. And it reinforces our belief that the best way to drive cloud efficiency is to empower the people doing the building.
So What’s Next?
We’re expanding what’s possible with cloud optimization, not just through our platform, but through strategic partnerships like our new collaboration with Espresso.AI. Together, we’re bringing deeper visibility and automation to Snowflake optimization, a major cost center for many teams, and extending our reach across four of the largest cloud platforms.
If you’d like to see CloudZero Optimize in action, visit our booth at FinOpsX this week or join us for our upcoming webinar on June 18, where we’ll walk through the product and what’s coming next. As always, current customers can reach out directly to their FinOps Account Manager (FAM) to get more information.
CloudZero Optimize reflects what we believe: That engineers don’t want to waste money, but they need better, more contextual data to act upon. That cost efficiency shouldn’t feel like a chore or a tradeoff. And that ROI is becoming just as much an engineering metric as a financial one.
We’re excited about what’s ahead, and we’re just getting started.
If you’re looking for a smarter way to reduce cloud waste, drive savings, and connect your technology decisions to business outcomes, CloudZero Optimize is here to help.
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